Passed away Saturday, July 4, 2020.
Joyce L. “Bambi” Hubbard was born on August 10, 1949 in Cleveland Ohio. Joyce made her transition on July 4, 2020, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She attended Cleveland Municipal Schools through ninth grade and graduated from Shaker Heights High School. She attended Central State University and later graduated from Cleveland State University with her Baccalaureate in Education and a Masters Degree in Business Administration.
Joyce was a data analyst at the Mogul Chemical Company, before securing her teaching license and a position with Cleveland Municipal Schools, as a business technology teacher at Jane Adams High School. She enjoyed her students, gardening, traveling, reading and solving puzzles in her leisure time. In years past, she practiced modern dance at the Karamu House Theater and played the piano and the violin.
Wayne Leslie married Joyce L. Hubbard in 1972, and she is survived by him and the daughter of that union, Shawn-Daria and Shawn’s husband, Daniel Dowd. They blessed her with grandchildren Joseph, Jaida, Mikaila, Caleb, and Naomi. Joseph and his wife Amber also blessed her with two great-grandchildren, Scarlette and Aurora.
Joyce remarried to Rollie Heard in 1984 and is survived by him and the son of that union, Steven-Michael Heard and his wife Nadia. They blessed her with two grandchildren, Isabella and Michael-Steven Heard.
She is survived by her brother Jerry R. Hubbard, Sr. and his wife Shirley, her sister Lady June Hubbard-Cole and her husband Bruce, and a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, friends and extended family.
She is preceded in death by her mother Mildred E. Bush (Hubbard) and her father Hearmey D. Hubbard. Sisters Bernice Ann Hubbard, Doris Hubbard Boswell and Marcia L. Hubbard-Shepard, MD. She leaves cherished memories to many family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and associates.
In lieu of flowers and in honor of her sister, please send donations to the Marcia Hubbard-Shepard Scholarship Fund. Please make donations payable to: the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation. Memo: Shepard Family Scholarship Fund. Address: 1049 Lake Street, Suite 204 Oak Park, Illinois 60301
Please leave condolences on The H.M. Martin Funeral Home website at https://www.hmmartinfuneralhome.com or send to P.O. Box 61049 Columbia, SC 29260
A memorial service will be arranged and announced at a later date.
Beverly Magbie Yaman
Joyce was a very sweet, sensitive and kind person. She was a very important part of my childhood,my best friend.I will never forget how we use to go to the park by the Cleveland Greenhouse and lay on the grass making clover necklaces and planning on marrying doctors when we grew up. I sometimes went to church with her and her family at Antioch Baptist church. Her mother, Mrs. Mildred Hubbard was a warm and cultured individual.I remember them both and Joyce’s sister Marcia with much fondness. I’m sure God is pleased with all of them, and I will always miss Joycey Poicy as I used to call her.